2024 Coaching Carousel

[Harvard Gamecock]

Biggest name so far
Tom Herman - fired from FAU today

Ball St - Mike Neu out
East Carolina - Mike Houston out
Kennesaw St - Brian Bohannon out
Rice - Mike Bloomgren out
Southern Miss - Will Hall out
Temple - Stan Drayton out
UMass - Don Brown out
Utah St - Blake Anderson out
Wisconsin - OC Phil Longo
Coastal Carolina OC Travis Trickett

 

[KingWard]

I had not expected Mike Houston to come up short at East Carolina.

 

[Lone Star Rooster]

Herman rumored to be a favorite for the Rice HC job.

 

[Irvin Snibbley]

I had not expected Mike Houston to come up short at East Carolina.

I am too.I still think he is a good coach .

 

[SC95]

I am too.I still think he is a good coach .

Houston should have stayed at JMU. Houston left JMU before the 2019 season, and JMU moved from FCS to FBS before the 2022 season.

 

[KingWard]

Houston should have stayed at JMU. Houston left JMU before the 2019 season, and JMU moved from FCS to FBS before the 2022 season.

I missed that stop in his career, and it was a good one. I only remembered him from The Citadel, where he dinged us.

 

[Harvard Gamecock]

Skip Holtz name being thrown around for the ECU job.
He not that old (60), but ECU might be better served looking for a younger candidate, IMHO.

 

[Irvin Snibbley]

I hope the privilege of sitting down with Mike Houston on 2 occasions and I was very impressed by him.Certainly did great things at his 3 stops before ECU.Don’t know what happened there.

 

[KingWard]

I hope the privilege of sitting down with Mike Houston on 2 occasions and I was very impressed by him.Certainly did great things at his 3 stops before ECU.Don’t know what happened there.

I think it comes back to "fit". A coach doesn't go to bed a good coach and wake up a bad coach. Most of the time, he makes a wrong career move. A couple of guys have done great at Houston and would have continued to do great. But their next upward moves were to the wrong places. "A man's GOT to know his limitations" - "Dirty Harry" Callahan.

 

[RUMMENIGGE]

 

[Harvard Gamecock]

A bit odd to make this a story, big splash that he's a candidate, not that he got hired, but a candidate
Lewis must have a good agent.

 

[Harvard Gamecock]

Jim McElwain, former HC @Colorado St, UF and now Central Michigan will step down at end of this season.

 

[KingWard]

Jim McElwain, former HC @Colorado St, UF and now Central Michigan will step down at end of this season.

Another one who fell prey to "a job too far".

 

[Maccmaine12]

Phil Longo won’t be without a job for long

 

[DrMickeySC]

Skip Holtz name being thrown around for the ECU job.
He not that old (60), but ECU might be better served looking for a younger candidate, IMHO.

You know, Harvard, I was thinking about that. The problem at a place like ECU is that the up and comer young coach, if he is good, won’t be there long. Get a guy like Skip, and you might have stability for 5-10 years.

I think about the Duke coach several years ago (can’t remember his name but he was the QB coach for Peyton Manning at Tennessee I think). He was content to stay at Duke, and when they had better than average years, he wasn’t budging.

 

[Harvard Gamecock]

You know, Harvard, I was thinking about that. The problem at a place like ECU is that the up and comer young coach, if he is good, won’t be there long. Get a guy like Skip, and you might have stability for 5-10 years.

I think about the Duke coach several years ago (can’t remember his name but he was the QB coach for Peyton Manning at Tennessee I think). He was content to stay at Duke, and when they had better than average years, he wasn’t budging.

You make a valid point.
ECU will just have to make a decision who will be the best candidate that is available

 

[3USC1801]

You know, Harvard, I was thinking about that. The problem at a place like ECU is that the up and comer young coach, if he is good, won’t be there long. Get a guy like Skip, and you might have stability for 5-10 years.

I think about the Duke coach several years ago (can’t remember his name but he was the QB coach for Peyton Manning at Tennessee I think). He was content to stay at Duke, and when they had better than average years, he wasn’t budging.

Cutcliffe was at Duke. Great guy.

 

[DrMickeySC]

Cutcliffe was at Duke. Great guy.

That’s the one! Couldn’t google and type my answer at the same time, lol.